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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETT ff 63201 8 Pages U UJ ;U U U kroly) UnJ LG MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SERVICE 1 THE MOST WIDELY C RCUUTED NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY EstabEshocj in tho Yoar 1865 UNION, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1966 VOLUME 101-NO. 44 Washington Youth Killed In Michael T. Neier. age 1, Routt 1, Washington, wu killed In a pott Christina tragedy at 2: JO a.m. In Washington in an automobile crash. Driving at the time of the accident was John E. Desmond, Washington, who was injured in the December 26 mishap. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the car was west bound on Highway 100 in the City of Washington at a high rate of speed. The driver apparently lost control of the car and it ran off the road and hit a tree. The cat was demolished. The injuries to Desmond were minor. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital. ' Also on Highway 100, on the same day, Henry A. Nolden, Washington, was injured in an accident at 8; 25 p.m. He was going west when he started to go into a driveway to turn around. A car driven by William A. Beumstark, Rock Hil, passed at the time the first car started to turn left. Nolden had a bruise on the head. A passenger In his car, Jessie A. Gardner, had a sprained right ankle and a cut on her left hand. They were taken' to St. Francis Hospital, according to the State Patrol.On Dec. 27, Patsy Fritz, Sullivan, was on Highway 18S when her car went into a tailspin on snow and turned upside down. She was not injured but the State Patrol estimated damage at $400. Roy Lee Pratt, Sullivan, was preparing to stop for Highway 66. A car driven by Gary L. Martin, also of Sullivan, was westbound on 66 and turned right into 185 to go north. He apparently swung too wide and sideswiped the other car. On Christmas Eve Day, Virgil G. Head, Sullivan, ran off the road on Highway 183 about .1 of a mile Financed Cars Cause Suits In two cases, automobile finance companies sued people on their finance note. General Motors Acceptance Corp. sued George Grid-ner, Pacific, and won their case. On July 31, 1957, Gridner paid 83,-695 for a 1957 Pontiac. When he did not keep up payments, GMAC repossessed the car. On January 8, 1958. GMAC sold the car privately for 1,900. They then sued Gridner for the difference between $1,900 and 83,695 less his down-payment.In a similiar case Associates Discount Corp. was awarded 8926, plus interest of 853, attorneys fees of 8147 and court costs of 810 in a suit against Fred C. and Susie Isgirggs. This case involved a 1961 Buick that was financed. Both cases were decided on Dec. 22. - Juanita Wuellner, Labadie, remarried and 850 a month alimony from Irving Wuellner waa discontinued.Missouri vs. Kenton bobbed to ' the surface again. This was a 1955 first degree murder case where Kenton confessed and later retracted his confession. The case had go i to the Missouri Supreme Court in ; 1957 on technical grounds. Life in prison had been the sentence. The Missouri Supreme Court has now ordered the circuit -Court to hold Bob Mlttler and Louis Borpnann of the Union Fire Department, who, along with others, were figitins a grass fire oa High- Wreck (north of old M. Ht hit two utility poles. He was cut on the head and his right shoulder was in jured. He was taken to Dr. Geira Sullivan, by State Troopers. Also on Christmas Eva Day, on Highway 84, there was three car accident. Robert P. Merle, Gerald, was attempting a left turn while going west on Highway SO Coins east on Highway SO wan a car driven by Odes -A. Stfea Jr., Bland. The impact, as the two cards collided, pushed Merle's car into the left side of a car driven by Jackson S. Crider of Hazel wood. Rickey A. Seba, age I, n passenger in the second car, complained of back injuries, was taken to Dr. Shea, Gerald and released. Earlier, on Dec. 23, Joseph Leuchtmann, St. Clair, ran off the left side of the road and turned over in the median of Interstate 44. He was net injured but the car was demolished. On the same day, Luida B Wormsbaker, Union, lost control of her vehicle, skidded on Highway KK and turned over on the right side of the car. She was cut over the left eye and has a possible knee injury. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital by a passing mo torist and released. On Dec. 21, John D. Maclean, Leslie, ran off Highway 50 on the right side, down an embankment, through a fence and hit some small trees. He was not injured but extensive damage was done to the car. Esther E. Bamhouse, Villa Ridee. and Ethel Bamhouse had possible neck injuries after an ac cident on Highway O. They had stopped on the Meramec Bridge An oncoming car driven by Walter F. Seaver. St. Louis, ran into them, according to State Troopers hearings on the evidence. Judge Tate has disqualified himself from the hearing. Washington Soldier Wins Combat Badge The coveted and respected Combat Infantryman's Badge was awarded in Vietnam Nov. 29 to Army. Private First Class David E Triplett, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Triplett, 1411 E. Eighth St., Washington. Triplett is assigned as an assistant machine gunner in Company C, 3rd Battalion of the 46h Infantry Division's 8th Infantry. Combat Infantryman's Badges were first awarded during World War II. A star was added for those who served in front line combat in Korea too. Should a veteran of both World War II and Korea again be awarded the badge, it would be topped by two stars. At least 30 days in contact against hostile forces in Vietnam is required in order to be eligible for the award. Triplett entered the Army in December 1965 and was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., before arriving' overseas in October 1966. way BB about 4 p.m. on Monday, Dee. 19. The fire was quickly brought under control. - -, (Tribune Photo) Jake Kohn, William Kaplan and Jack Kaplan standing appropriately by Santa Claus figures at the Cirmo Shoe Co plant on the Thursday before Christmas. Wildcats Breeze To Victory Over Dutchmen The Wildcats won a relatively easy game at Owensville on Dec. 20 for the final game before the Christmas holidays. The coach was able to use everyone on the team after a 24 point second quarter put Union ahead 36 to 21 at the half. The quarterly scores were: Union 12 ! 51 12 Owensville t 21 37 SS Keith Biermann was the top scorer for the Wildcats with 23 points. Dave Loyd had a cold and was not his usual sharp self. He made 13 points, not playing the whole game. Charlie Brown, who made a good showing the last time out, played excellent ball at Owensville. So did what's-his-name Haney (the older of the brothers). Bob Bockhorst also made a good showing. Brown made 10 points, Bockhorst, six and Haney, four. On the Dutchmann side, Stuart made 21 and Wenkel made 13. Both teams were sharp on free throws. New Haven made 76 per cent of theirs and Union was almost as good with 72 per cert. For the season, Union has won ive and lost one. This puts them tecond to New Haven, in the Four livers Conference, which has a jerfect five wins, no losses ve-:ord. It will make an interesting jame when these two meet. That same night the "B" team nade a creditable showing in a 12-45 loss. The quarterly scores were: Union 12 21 SS 45 Owensville 12 21 40 82 Steve Richardson was the high scorer with 17 points. Haney! the younger, was second with 11 points. The other Wildcat scoreres were: Gary Toelke, six, John Shockley, 3, Tom Rathgeber, 2, Mike Bierman, 2, and Greg Paffrath, 2. f ' ,. For the Owensville "B" team Spurgeon made 17 points and Bloemke had 16. The "Wildcats made 54 per cent of their free throws. What's his name Haney should not be confused with Haney1, his younger brother, who plays on the "B" team.What's-his-name has made a strong showing In the last two games against Owensville and Washington.(What's-his-name is Mike Haney). Winter Starts Clear, Cold Winter started last Thursday with the weather clear, cold and windy. The temperature ranges for the week were: Wednesday, Dec. -21: 56 High, 27 Low; Thurtday, 33, 29; Friday, 24 21; Saturday 34 12; - Sunday 35 14; Monday 36, 18; Tuesday 32, 19. The low for the week 12 is as low as the temperature has gone this year although it was also 12 on Dec. 3. ' Normal highs for the week are 41 and normal lows 25. There has been no rain for 17 days. On Tuesday.. Dec. 27 there was mow, sleet and rain but all traces not measureable amounts. The Bourbeuse River is .8 of a foot and falling. There is ice along the edge of the river at the shore. MFA Meets At Columbia Frank J. Hanneken. Robert Klen-ke, A. A. Wallach. Clifford De-wert and Elmer Boemler represented the Union Exchange at the M. F. A annual meeting of the M. F. A. Central Cooperative. The meeting was held in Columbia. There are . 250 local exchanges and elevators in M. F. A. Of these, 82 are in the Central Co operative which was holding the meeting. Sales for this group was $70,250,000 for past year A Board of Directors vat elected at the meeting. . fUti ' ' ' "'""'-'i'i) I . -'11 v-'.-J ; ''I . ..A urn hit inn rum I I'M V If " At noon that day, the company played Santa and provided a complete turkey dinner for all employees.' . (Tribune Photo) FHA Makes Larger Loans r ; Additional and much needed re sources for hard-pressed, low-in come Missouri rural people desir ing to improve their farm income will be provided through an amendment to Title III of the Economic Opportunity Act recently signed by President Johnson. This fact was pointed out this week by Arthur P. Muenks, Farmers Home Administration County Supervisor for Franklin and Warren counties In Union. "This important Economic Op portunity Act amendment increases from 82,500 to 83,500 the maximum war-oa-povattyTvJognt that tiia USDA Farmers, Home Admin istration can make to individual Missouri farmers or other rural residents," Mr. Muneks said. This amendment also authoriz es additional credit to borrowers ns long as their outstanding indebtedness for an economic opportunity loan does not exceed $3,t00. "The new economic opportunity loan provisions will more adequately cover the financing of needed land, working quarters and equipment needed to establish many economic opportunity individual enterprises on a. sound basis,". Mr. Muenks explained. "Another impor tant point is that the program can with necessary capital for improvements or expansion." Since this Office of Economic Opportunity loan program started in January, 1965, the Farmers Home Administration hat extend ed credit to some 590 Missouri families and 852 million in loans to over 30,000 families through out the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Econo mic opportunity borrowers through out the nation are operating more than 400 different kinds of non-agricultural enterprises in addition to farming as a result of credit extended through this pro gram. Missouri loans average 1,- 690. County Man Wins Combat Badge The coveted and respected Com bat Infantryman's Badge was awarded in Vietnam Nov. 29 to Army Specialist Fourth Class Ar nold L. Woodcock, 20, ton of Doro thy Woodcock, Route 2, Box 318A, Sullivan. Spec. Woodcock it assigned as a rifleman in . Company C, 3rd Battalion of the 4th Infantry Di-vson's 8th Infantry. Combat Infantryman's Badges were first awarded during World War II. A star 'waa. added for those who served in front line combat in Korea too.. .Should a veteran of both World War II and Korea again be awarded the badge, it should be topped by two stars. - - , At least 1 30 days in contact against hostile forces in Vietnam is required in order to be eligible for the award. Spec Woodcock entered the Army in December 1963 and was stationed at Ft Lewis, Wash., before arriving overseas in October 1968. Spec Woodcock Is a 1964 graduate of Sullivan High SchooL His wife. Sally, lives oa Route 2, St. Clair. At noon. Thursday, Dec. 22, Car-mo provided a free turkey dinner for Its employees. At the same time, a simlllar meal was being provided at Union Heel Co. On Friday, it was thft turn of Union City Shoe Supply to do the same. The meal waa cooked by Schul-te's Bakery and brought to the factory. Employees ate in their department. The complete dinner was topped off with pies and pastries.On Friday the threeJointly-owned companies will give hams to their employees to take home. It has been the custom of these companies to give out hams on Christ-mat for fivo or six years. They have been giving a Christmas Merchants Christmas ' Christmas shopping ran ahead of last year according to most merchants in Union, a spot check by the Tribune revealed. Merchants have not closed their books or made an exact accounting yet but most merchants have watched weekly receipts and have a pretty good "feel" of how business was. Sixty percent of the merchants contacted said business was better than last year. Thirty percent said Water District Sets Cutoff Public Water District No. 3 set the cutoff date for tign up. Final engincerng plans will be entered into for the Labadie, Gray Summit and Villa Ridge Public Water District at the next meeting of tho board on January 18. If you live In this area being served by the district you may tign up at tho 835. rate until January 18. After that date the hook-up charge has been set at 8225. '' Mr. Percy of Midwest Security met with the Water District Board and their attorney to discuss finali zing of the revenue bonds for the first phase of construction on 33 miles of water line. He stated that the project looked very feasible and that about 100 more signers would be needed. Sign-up charges can be paid to any board member or to the treasurer, Robert Heisel of Hei- sel Equipment Company, Labadie. Sheriff Gets Few Reports There were few reports to the Sheriff't Office during the Christ mas period. Robert W. . Bochert Sr. who lives two miles west of Union, reported a window broken and silverware and a rifle taken on Dec. 22. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, Route 1, Union, reported a damaged mail box on Dec. 20. Raymond Reeser, Route 1, Un ion, reported a stripped car. Six wheels, a carburetor, fuel pump, battery, head lamps and a generator were taken. Lowell Plymale, St Clair, re ported the theft of a manifold, carburetor, distributor and wires from a car. hi a. ' K ' 1 Air f Members of the Lasting Dept. at. Canno Shoe Co. setting tha turkey dinner dinner to employees for even longer. Insurance: J ska Kohn announced that the company was giving the employees major medical insure-ance at no cost to the employee. This insurance is already effective having gone into effect December IS. The plan covert the employee and hit entire family. The children are covered from birth to 19 yean of age. All medical expenses are covered to 810,000 with the insurance paying 80 per cent and the employee 20 of the bills. There It a 8100 deductible per year on the insurance. Another part of the Insurance pays disability Income. While hospitalized, the employee will get 825 a week. This will continue Report Sales it was the same and 10 percent reported worse. - Those reporting gains said the gains ran up to 25 percent over last year a good year v itself. Some stores reported earlier sales this year, starting before Thanksgiving. Other stores said pre-Thanksgiving sales of Christmas-type shopping were negligible. People frequently say that warm days, of which we had a number Jurors For Next Term Drawn Jurors for Franklin County for tne next term beginning January 23, 1967 have been selected by the Board of Jury Commissioners. The Township, the petit jurors and tne alternates are: Boeuf, Goldie Elflein. Rube Peh le;, Bolet, Donald Unnerstall. Betty Cox, Conrad Sieve, Sam Cron Nolan Viemann, Herbert Fried mann; Boone, Virginia Froelker, Cdrl . B rondel. Otto - Hovelman, Theo. Koelling; Calvey, Orba Rut tell, Thomas Mangan; Central, Alfred Osborn, Charles McCarty, Walter Cahill. Richard Klenke, Marvin Wilson, Tracy Reed; Ly on, Leonard Brune, Frank Roe- der; Meramec, Gertrude Shaffer, Harvey Gilhaut, Dan Halmich, Blanche Strauser; New Haven, Herbert Lueche, Howard Langen-berg; Prairie, VirgilBrown.-Clif-ford Atkinson; St Johns, Ervin Gildehaua, Eugene Kosullc; Union, August Wlldt, Amos Rosenkoettor, Dorthy Mills, Henry Rolf, Harold Reutter, William H. Shaffer; Washington, Howard L. Haddox,, Virgil Maune, Herbert Obermark, James C. Kraft, Joseph Narup, Lawrence Ballmann Jr., Etoy Freltag, Albert Stuckhoff, - Clem Voss, Hen man Lauchstdedt, , : - ' Mew Families AreWelcomed Mrs. Julia Herman reports that the Welcome Wagon greeted the following newcomers to Union: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haynes now a. staff sergeant In the Air Force. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Pendleton moved to 308 East Park from Ren-don do, California. ,i - Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Smith now live at 622 East State St. with their two children. : v,- k"1 iHy iw .mi -gmm llMga.'w "raytwitwii i igaLiiiiiiittn - ----- which was furnished by the company at boob oa Thursday, Dec. 22. . 1 V :; .(Tr&BB Photo) ; n ... U . X . - -.A tome income to the family, in addition to paying medical expenses. - Mr. Kohn pointed to two cues in the last year where shoe work ere of their dependents had medical bills far in excess of their ability to pay. One was a bill for 89.000 and the other for 83,200. With the new Insurance, 80 per cent of these bills would be paid. Mr. Kohn said he has been work Ing for yean to get this Insurance plan adopted but that the great expense made it difficult to gt approval. He feels the plan will be a great relief to families worried about how they would pay large medical expenses. Carmo's dinner and Insurance added to the Christmas happiness in Union. More during the Christmas shopping tea-son, do not give them the Christmas spirit Merchant doubt that warm days cause a reduction in Christmas shopping. Local merchants do love to hear weather re ports predicting bad driving conditions because this keeps people from going to St. Louis to shop and encourages shopping in Union. All In all, most merchants were pleased with the season. Carolers Collect $270 Approximately 275 carolers participated Monday evening, December 19 in singing Chirstmat tongs to area residents and thut-lnt. Hot chocolate and cookies were served to the carolers after the program. A total of 8269.87 was received from donations. Officers elected to the Union Carolers Association for the coming two years were: Rev. Elmer Althoff, Chairman;' Glenn Hull, Minister-vice-chairman; and Mrs. John Freise,Secretary-Treatur-en. Elected to fid expired terms on the Board of Directors were: Mar-jorie Lynch, Irene McWay and Mra. R. Pendleton. The Association expressed its thanks to all those who helped with the poster contest, the caroling, and the contributions received Monday evenings , Prizes For Door Displays Are Awarded Twenty-one entries In the De corated Door Contest which was sponsored by the Union Garden Club were given the results of the Judges Thursday. , Three Garden Club members from the Washington Garden Club viewed the doors and selected the work of Mrs. Lewis Schmelz for the 1st place of 810.00 and Mrs. William Sullivan 'was given 2ul honors of 87.50 and Earl Glawson captured the 3rd prize of 85.00. The Judges were Mrs. E. J. Geers, president of her club, Mrs. Aloys Wellenkamp and Mrs. Ed win H. Thias, all of Washington. The Union Garden Club and Mrs. J. Karraker, Chairman, congrat ulated the winners and thanked everyone who entered the contest. if'

STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETT ff 63201 8 Pages U UJ ;U U U kroly) UnJ LG MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SERVICE 1 THE MOST WIDELY C RCUUTED NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY EstabEshocj in tho Yoar 1865 UNION, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1966 VOLUME 101-NO. 44 Washington Youth Killed In Michael T. Neier. age 1, Routt 1, Washington, wu killed In a pott Christina tragedy at 2: JO a.m. In Washington in an automobile crash. Driving at the time of the accident was John E. Desmond, Washington, who was injured in the December 26 mishap. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the car was west bound on Highway 100 in the City of Washington at a high rate of speed. The driver apparently lost control of the car and it ran off the road and hit a tree. The cat was demolished. The injuries to Desmond were minor. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital. ' Also on Highway 100, on the same day, Henry A. Nolden, Washington, was injured in an accident at 8; 25 p.m. He was going west when he started to go into a driveway to turn around. A car driven by William A. Beumstark, Rock Hil, passed at the time the first car started to turn left. Nolden had a bruise on the head. A passenger In his car, Jessie A. Gardner, had a sprained right ankle and a cut on her left hand. They were taken' to St. Francis Hospital, according to the State Patrol.On Dec. 27, Patsy Fritz, Sullivan, was on Highway 18S when her car went into a tailspin on snow and turned upside down. She was not injured but the State Patrol estimated damage at $400. Roy Lee Pratt, Sullivan, was preparing to stop for Highway 66. A car driven by Gary L. Martin, also of Sullivan, was westbound on 66 and turned right into 185 to go north. He apparently swung too wide and sideswiped the other car. On Christmas Eve Day, Virgil G. Head, Sullivan, ran off the road on Highway 183 about .1 of a mile Financed Cars Cause Suits In two cases, automobile finance companies sued people on their finance note. General Motors Acceptance Corp. sued George Grid-ner, Pacific, and won their case. On July 31, 1957, Gridner paid 83,-695 for a 1957 Pontiac. When he did not keep up payments, GMAC repossessed the car. On January 8, 1958. GMAC sold the car privately for 1,900. They then sued Gridner for the difference between $1,900 and 83,695 less his down-payment.In a similiar case Associates Discount Corp. was awarded 8926, plus interest of 853, attorneys fees of 8147 and court costs of 810 in a suit against Fred C. and Susie Isgirggs. This case involved a 1961 Buick that was financed. Both cases were decided on Dec. 22. - Juanita Wuellner, Labadie, remarried and 850 a month alimony from Irving Wuellner waa discontinued.Missouri vs. Kenton bobbed to ' the surface again. This was a 1955 first degree murder case where Kenton confessed and later retracted his confession. The case had go i to the Missouri Supreme Court in ; 1957 on technical grounds. Life in prison had been the sentence. The Missouri Supreme Court has now ordered the circuit -Court to hold Bob Mlttler and Louis Borpnann of the Union Fire Department, who, along with others, were figitins a grass fire oa High- Wreck (north of old M. Ht hit two utility poles. He was cut on the head and his right shoulder was in jured. He was taken to Dr. Geira Sullivan, by State Troopers. Also on Christmas Eva Day, on Highway 84, there was three car accident. Robert P. Merle, Gerald, was attempting a left turn while going west on Highway SO Coins east on Highway SO wan a car driven by Odes -A. Stfea Jr., Bland. The impact, as the two cards collided, pushed Merle's car into the left side of a car driven by Jackson S. Crider of Hazel wood. Rickey A. Seba, age I, n passenger in the second car, complained of back injuries, was taken to Dr. Shea, Gerald and released. Earlier, on Dec. 23, Joseph Leuchtmann, St. Clair, ran off the left side of the road and turned over in the median of Interstate 44. He was net injured but the car was demolished. On the same day, Luida B Wormsbaker, Union, lost control of her vehicle, skidded on Highway KK and turned over on the right side of the car. She was cut over the left eye and has a possible knee injury. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital by a passing mo torist and released. On Dec. 21, John D. Maclean, Leslie, ran off Highway 50 on the right side, down an embankment, through a fence and hit some small trees. He was not injured but extensive damage was done to the car. Esther E. Bamhouse, Villa Ridee. and Ethel Bamhouse had possible neck injuries after an ac cident on Highway O. They had stopped on the Meramec Bridge An oncoming car driven by Walter F. Seaver. St. Louis, ran into them, according to State Troopers hearings on the evidence. Judge Tate has disqualified himself from the hearing. Washington Soldier Wins Combat Badge The coveted and respected Combat Infantryman's Badge was awarded in Vietnam Nov. 29 to Army. Private First Class David E Triplett, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Triplett, 1411 E. Eighth St., Washington. Triplett is assigned as an assistant machine gunner in Company C, 3rd Battalion of the 46h Infantry Division's 8th Infantry. Combat Infantryman's Badges were first awarded during World War II. A star was added for those who served in front line combat in Korea too. Should a veteran of both World War II and Korea again be awarded the badge, it would be topped by two stars. At least 30 days in contact against hostile forces in Vietnam is required in order to be eligible for the award. Triplett entered the Army in December 1965 and was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., before arriving' overseas in October 1966. way BB about 4 p.m. on Monday, Dee. 19. The fire was quickly brought under control. - -, (Tribune Photo) Jake Kohn, William Kaplan and Jack Kaplan standing appropriately by Santa Claus figures at the Cirmo Shoe Co plant on the Thursday before Christmas. Wildcats Breeze To Victory Over Dutchmen The Wildcats won a relatively easy game at Owensville on Dec. 20 for the final game before the Christmas holidays. The coach was able to use everyone on the team after a 24 point second quarter put Union ahead 36 to 21 at the half. The quarterly scores were: Union 12 ! 51 12 Owensville t 21 37 SS Keith Biermann was the top scorer for the Wildcats with 23 points. Dave Loyd had a cold and was not his usual sharp self. He made 13 points, not playing the whole game. Charlie Brown, who made a good showing the last time out, played excellent ball at Owensville. So did what's-his-name Haney (the older of the brothers). Bob Bockhorst also made a good showing. Brown made 10 points, Bockhorst, six and Haney, four. On the Dutchmann side, Stuart made 21 and Wenkel made 13. Both teams were sharp on free throws. New Haven made 76 per cent of theirs and Union was almost as good with 72 per cert. For the season, Union has won ive and lost one. This puts them tecond to New Haven, in the Four livers Conference, which has a jerfect five wins, no losses ve-:ord. It will make an interesting jame when these two meet. That same night the "B" team nade a creditable showing in a 12-45 loss. The quarterly scores were: Union 12 21 SS 45 Owensville 12 21 40 82 Steve Richardson was the high scorer with 17 points. Haney! the younger, was second with 11 points. The other Wildcat scoreres were: Gary Toelke, six, John Shockley, 3, Tom Rathgeber, 2, Mike Bierman, 2, and Greg Paffrath, 2. f ' ,. For the Owensville "B" team Spurgeon made 17 points and Bloemke had 16. The "Wildcats made 54 per cent of their free throws. What's his name Haney should not be confused with Haney1, his younger brother, who plays on the "B" team.What's-his-name has made a strong showing In the last two games against Owensville and Washington.(What's-his-name is Mike Haney). Winter Starts Clear, Cold Winter started last Thursday with the weather clear, cold and windy. The temperature ranges for the week were: Wednesday, Dec. -21: 56 High, 27 Low; Thurtday, 33, 29; Friday, 24 21; Saturday 34 12; - Sunday 35 14; Monday 36, 18; Tuesday 32, 19. The low for the week 12 is as low as the temperature has gone this year although it was also 12 on Dec. 3. ' Normal highs for the week are 41 and normal lows 25. There has been no rain for 17 days. On Tuesday.. Dec. 27 there was mow, sleet and rain but all traces not measureable amounts. The Bourbeuse River is .8 of a foot and falling. There is ice along the edge of the river at the shore. MFA Meets At Columbia Frank J. Hanneken. Robert Klen-ke, A. A. Wallach. Clifford De-wert and Elmer Boemler represented the Union Exchange at the M. F. A annual meeting of the M. F. A. Central Cooperative. The meeting was held in Columbia. There are . 250 local exchanges and elevators in M. F. A. Of these, 82 are in the Central Co operative which was holding the meeting. Sales for this group was $70,250,000 for past year A Board of Directors vat elected at the meeting. . fUti ' ' ' "'""'-'i'i) I . -'11 v-'.-J ; ''I . ..A urn hit inn rum I I'M V If " At noon that day, the company played Santa and provided a complete turkey dinner for all employees.' . (Tribune Photo) FHA Makes Larger Loans r ; Additional and much needed re sources for hard-pressed, low-in come Missouri rural people desir ing to improve their farm income will be provided through an amendment to Title III of the Economic Opportunity Act recently signed by President Johnson. This fact was pointed out this week by Arthur P. Muenks, Farmers Home Administration County Supervisor for Franklin and Warren counties In Union. "This important Economic Op portunity Act amendment increases from 82,500 to 83,500 the maximum war-oa-povattyTvJognt that tiia USDA Farmers, Home Admin istration can make to individual Missouri farmers or other rural residents," Mr. Muneks said. This amendment also authoriz es additional credit to borrowers ns long as their outstanding indebtedness for an economic opportunity loan does not exceed $3,t00. "The new economic opportunity loan provisions will more adequately cover the financing of needed land, working quarters and equipment needed to establish many economic opportunity individual enterprises on a. sound basis,". Mr. Muenks explained. "Another impor tant point is that the program can with necessary capital for improvements or expansion." Since this Office of Economic Opportunity loan program started in January, 1965, the Farmers Home Administration hat extend ed credit to some 590 Missouri families and 852 million in loans to over 30,000 families through out the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Econo mic opportunity borrowers through out the nation are operating more than 400 different kinds of non-agricultural enterprises in addition to farming as a result of credit extended through this pro gram. Missouri loans average 1,- 690. County Man Wins Combat Badge The coveted and respected Com bat Infantryman's Badge was awarded in Vietnam Nov. 29 to Army Specialist Fourth Class Ar nold L. Woodcock, 20, ton of Doro thy Woodcock, Route 2, Box 318A, Sullivan. Spec. Woodcock it assigned as a rifleman in . Company C, 3rd Battalion of the 4th Infantry Di-vson's 8th Infantry. Combat Infantryman's Badges were first awarded during World War II. A star 'waa. added for those who served in front line combat in Korea too.. .Should a veteran of both World War II and Korea again be awarded the badge, it should be topped by two stars. - - , At least 1 30 days in contact against hostile forces in Vietnam is required in order to be eligible for the award. Spec Woodcock entered the Army in December 1963 and was stationed at Ft Lewis, Wash., before arriving overseas in October 1968. Spec Woodcock Is a 1964 graduate of Sullivan High SchooL His wife. Sally, lives oa Route 2, St. Clair. At noon. Thursday, Dec. 22, Car-mo provided a free turkey dinner for Its employees. At the same time, a simlllar meal was being provided at Union Heel Co. On Friday, it was thft turn of Union City Shoe Supply to do the same. The meal waa cooked by Schul-te's Bakery and brought to the factory. Employees ate in their department. The complete dinner was topped off with pies and pastries.On Friday the threeJointly-owned companies will give hams to their employees to take home. It has been the custom of these companies to give out hams on Christ-mat for fivo or six years. They have been giving a Christmas Merchants Christmas ' Christmas shopping ran ahead of last year according to most merchants in Union, a spot check by the Tribune revealed. Merchants have not closed their books or made an exact accounting yet but most merchants have watched weekly receipts and have a pretty good "feel" of how business was. Sixty percent of the merchants contacted said business was better than last year. Thirty percent said Water District Sets Cutoff Public Water District No. 3 set the cutoff date for tign up. Final engincerng plans will be entered into for the Labadie, Gray Summit and Villa Ridge Public Water District at the next meeting of tho board on January 18. If you live In this area being served by the district you may tign up at tho 835. rate until January 18. After that date the hook-up charge has been set at 8225. '' Mr. Percy of Midwest Security met with the Water District Board and their attorney to discuss finali zing of the revenue bonds for the first phase of construction on 33 miles of water line. He stated that the project looked very feasible and that about 100 more signers would be needed. Sign-up charges can be paid to any board member or to the treasurer, Robert Heisel of Hei- sel Equipment Company, Labadie. Sheriff Gets Few Reports There were few reports to the Sheriff't Office during the Christ mas period. Robert W. . Bochert Sr. who lives two miles west of Union, reported a window broken and silverware and a rifle taken on Dec. 22. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, Route 1, Union, reported a damaged mail box on Dec. 20. Raymond Reeser, Route 1, Un ion, reported a stripped car. Six wheels, a carburetor, fuel pump, battery, head lamps and a generator were taken. Lowell Plymale, St Clair, re ported the theft of a manifold, carburetor, distributor and wires from a car. hi a. ' K ' 1 Air f Members of the Lasting Dept. at. Canno Shoe Co. setting tha turkey dinner dinner to employees for even longer. Insurance: J ska Kohn announced that the company was giving the employees major medical insure-ance at no cost to the employee. This insurance is already effective having gone into effect December IS. The plan covert the employee and hit entire family. The children are covered from birth to 19 yean of age. All medical expenses are covered to 810,000 with the insurance paying 80 per cent and the employee 20 of the bills. There It a 8100 deductible per year on the insurance. Another part of the Insurance pays disability Income. While hospitalized, the employee will get 825 a week. This will continue Report Sales it was the same and 10 percent reported worse. - Those reporting gains said the gains ran up to 25 percent over last year a good year v itself. Some stores reported earlier sales this year, starting before Thanksgiving. Other stores said pre-Thanksgiving sales of Christmas-type shopping were negligible. People frequently say that warm days, of which we had a number Jurors For Next Term Drawn Jurors for Franklin County for tne next term beginning January 23, 1967 have been selected by the Board of Jury Commissioners. The Township, the petit jurors and tne alternates are: Boeuf, Goldie Elflein. Rube Peh le;, Bolet, Donald Unnerstall. Betty Cox, Conrad Sieve, Sam Cron Nolan Viemann, Herbert Fried mann; Boone, Virginia Froelker, Cdrl . B rondel. Otto - Hovelman, Theo. Koelling; Calvey, Orba Rut tell, Thomas Mangan; Central, Alfred Osborn, Charles McCarty, Walter Cahill. Richard Klenke, Marvin Wilson, Tracy Reed; Ly on, Leonard Brune, Frank Roe- der; Meramec, Gertrude Shaffer, Harvey Gilhaut, Dan Halmich, Blanche Strauser; New Haven, Herbert Lueche, Howard Langen-berg; Prairie, VirgilBrown.-Clif-ford Atkinson; St Johns, Ervin Gildehaua, Eugene Kosullc; Union, August Wlldt, Amos Rosenkoettor, Dorthy Mills, Henry Rolf, Harold Reutter, William H. Shaffer; Washington, Howard L. Haddox,, Virgil Maune, Herbert Obermark, James C. Kraft, Joseph Narup, Lawrence Ballmann Jr., Etoy Freltag, Albert Stuckhoff, - Clem Voss, Hen man Lauchstdedt, , : - ' Mew Families AreWelcomed Mrs. Julia Herman reports that the Welcome Wagon greeted the following newcomers to Union: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haynes now a. staff sergeant In the Air Force. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Pendleton moved to 308 East Park from Ren-don do, California. ,i - Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Smith now live at 622 East State St. with their two children. : v,- k"1 iHy iw .mi -gmm llMga.'w "raytwitwii i igaLiiiiiiittn - ----- which was furnished by the company at boob oa Thursday, Dec. 22. . 1 V :; .(Tr&BB Photo) ; n ... U . X . - -.A tome income to the family, in addition to paying medical expenses. - Mr. Kohn pointed to two cues in the last year where shoe work ere of their dependents had medical bills far in excess of their ability to pay. One was a bill for 89.000 and the other for 83,200. With the new Insurance, 80 per cent of these bills would be paid. Mr. Kohn said he has been work Ing for yean to get this Insurance plan adopted but that the great expense made it difficult to gt approval. He feels the plan will be a great relief to families worried about how they would pay large medical expenses. Carmo's dinner and Insurance added to the Christmas happiness in Union. More during the Christmas shopping tea-son, do not give them the Christmas spirit Merchant doubt that warm days cause a reduction in Christmas shopping. Local merchants do love to hear weather re ports predicting bad driving conditions because this keeps people from going to St. Louis to shop and encourages shopping in Union. All In all, most merchants were pleased with the season. Carolers Collect $270 Approximately 275 carolers participated Monday evening, December 19 in singing Chirstmat tongs to area residents and thut-lnt. Hot chocolate and cookies were served to the carolers after the program. A total of 8269.87 was received from donations. Officers elected to the Union Carolers Association for the coming two years were: Rev. Elmer Althoff, Chairman;' Glenn Hull, Minister-vice-chairman; and Mrs. John Freise,Secretary-Treatur-en. Elected to fid expired terms on the Board of Directors were: Mar-jorie Lynch, Irene McWay and Mra. R. Pendleton. The Association expressed its thanks to all those who helped with the poster contest, the caroling, and the contributions received Monday evenings , Prizes For Door Displays Are Awarded Twenty-one entries In the De corated Door Contest which was sponsored by the Union Garden Club were given the results of the Judges Thursday. , Three Garden Club members from the Washington Garden Club viewed the doors and selected the work of Mrs. Lewis Schmelz for the 1st place of 810.00 and Mrs. William Sullivan 'was given 2ul honors of 87.50 and Earl Glawson captured the 3rd prize of 85.00. The Judges were Mrs. E. J. Geers, president of her club, Mrs. Aloys Wellenkamp and Mrs. Ed win H. Thias, all of Washington. The Union Garden Club and Mrs. J. Karraker, Chairman, congrat ulated the winners and thanked everyone who entered the contest. if'